Cleaning the Sea The Habaneras shopping centre in Torrevieja has launched a poignant display, coinciding with World Environment Day, of a shark ingesting plastic litter. Using the hashtag #YoSoyTorrevieja, the campaign aims at raising awareness of waste, particularly plastic, and the harm it does to the marine environment. The Habaneras shark is made from wire mesh and is doubling us as a receptacle … Read More
N332 Needs Your Help Once again, the N332 Road Safety Project has been nominated and shortlisted in a national award that recognises contributions to road safety. The “Ponle Freno Citizen 2019” is awarded public vote, and so we need your help to support us. Representing N332 once again is Francisco Javier Morales Herrera, the original founder of the project … Read More
Twelve Immigrants land in Torrevieja Medical staff from the Cruz Roja have met a boat carrying twelve immigrants which landed at Cala del Moro in Torrevieja on Tuesday. The Guardia Civil report that the twelve are all male and of legal age, all saying that they are from Algeria. A local resident alerted the Guardia Civil at around 10:30 of the boat, with both the … Read More
Belt Up! Seat Belt Campaign Starts Monday Starting on Monday, the Guardia Civil traffic department, supported by their colleagues in the police, will be out in force to ensure the correct use and operation of seat belts and child restraint systems in vehicles. In 2014 (the last year of consolidated data), the number of unbelted deaths accounted for 24% of the total, … Read More
New Booklet to Promote Tourist Routes The councillor for tourism, Fanny Serrano, showed off a new booklet at a press conference this week, a guide that offers information about the various guided routes that can be enjoyed throughout the winter season. The guided routes have been more popular than ever this summer, resulting in an extension to their contract, and now, throughout the winter, Torrevieja is … Read More
The Integrated Patrol In a pioneering model of road traffic policing across Europe, the Guardia Civil now operates the first vehicles under the banner name of the “Integrated Patrol”. The Integrated Patrol is a new surveillance model which sees motorbikes equipped with all Read Full Article... Read More
Robbers who Preyed on Elderly Arrested Officers from the Guardia Civil in Calpe (Alicante) have arrested two people accused of defrauding up to 9,000 euro for elderly victims. Officers were conducting a routine patrol when they observed a young man... Read More
Why are Traffic Officers speaking to these Cyclists? On a routine patrol in Rojales this week, a Guardia Civil traffic patrol stopped and fined a cyclist. When a bicycle is being ridden, it is a vehicle. Therefore it is governed by the same rules of the road as Read More ... Read More
Always There to Help Whatever the weather, come rain or shine, the man and women of the emergency services are always there to help. During the storms of this week, they have all been pushed to the limit, and yet they are still there, Read More ... Read More
Torrevieja Bike Patrol The Department of the Environment in Torrevieja has launched a parkland observation project in which 32 cyclists will routinely patrol the protected parkland of La Mata and Torrevieja looking for and reporting incidents of environmental and other concerns in order to preserve the ecological values of this protected natural area, preventive monitoring of forest fires […] Read More